Manny Pardo

1. #1

   Keys: October 25th 1991, October 25th

   Pardo investigates a crime scene, a man with his throat slit in an apartment and a message in blood reading "I'm innocent, they forced me to do it.", Pardo hopes the press covers it but the investigator says the murders are too boring for them.

2. #2

   Keys: November 5th 1991, November 5th

   Evan calls Pardo for info on the Russian Mafia. Pardo gives Evan a location hoping he'll drop Jacket's story and cover the Mutilator.

3. #3

   Keys: December 10th, December 10th 1991

   Pardo visits Alex's house looking for 'Ash Davis'. He has a man tied up, likely Ash's friend Jack. Pardo plants Jack's wallet to frame Alex and Ash. He calls Alex pretty, saying she 'got the good genes'. Later, an empty-trunk'd Pardo arrives at the Colombian docks, kills nearly 100 of them, and is chastised for recklessness. After that, he investigates a more violent mutilation, the victim (Jack) missing his wallet and guts, the message reads "Please don't make me do it again." The gutting was post-mortem, and the cause of death was strangulation, hinting that the gore is just for notoriety purposes. Pardo thinks the Mutilator wants press, claiming that 'scumbags crave attention'. Investigator Johnson replies with "don't we all, huh?" and says that Pardo will probably be famous by the end of all this, asking if he can handle the fame.

4. #4

   Keys: December 14th, December 14th 1991

   Manny Pardo attempts to visit the Son (Russian Mafia boss) for unspecified reasons. The fact that the Son has recently acquired notoriety from the press is clearly a factor in the visit, but whether Pardo wants to kill the Son for personal fame or is working with the Son to kill the Colombian gang is left unspecified.

5. #5

   Keys: December 20th 1991, December 20th

   Pardo kills Tony, the last surrendering survivor of the Fans (copycats of the Masked Maniac killings of 1989) at the Russian HQ, saying Tony came at him. The chief seems to know Pardo shot an unarmed, surrendering man.

6. #6

   Keys: December 27th, December 27th 1991

   Pardo investigates another Mutilator scene with dozens of cigarette buds. The corpse is unrecognizable. The message is "You have to stop them! I don't want to take any more innocent lives!" Johnson says the Mutilator's out of his mind. Pardo says that his job is on the line due to publicity. Pardo arrives at his house, falls asleep, and has a nightmare of ripping his apartment apart looking for his revolver, he exits his house, imagining that all his neighbors in the surrounding apartments got 50 Blessings mask packages. He arrives at the earlier crime scene, the "Phantom" (claiming to be his "son") strangles Pardo. The scene becomes a movie set, showing Pardo wants fame for his Mutilator crimes. Pardo is arrested as the Mutilator but says he's innocent. He kills through the station but is shot at the exit, and wakes up in a cold sweat in his apartment.

7. #7

   Keys: The writer, writer, Evan Wright, Evan

   Veteran journalist turned writer. He is currently researching and writing a book about the 1989 Masked Maniac killings, but has reached some dead ends. Is friends with Manny Pardo, and uses him to get leads.

8. #8

   Keys: phantom, Ventriloquist, Phantom, ventriloquist

   A strange entity that confronts Manny Pardo in a nightmare he has. It's implied that the Phantom is how Manny Pardo views himself when he is acting as the Miami Mutilator and killing his victims. Phantom may very well also represent how Manny Pardo views himself as not responsible for his actions when he plays the role of the Miami Mutilator.

9. #9

   Keys: Miami Mutilator

   Series of murders during 1991 in Miami. Pardo's extreme obsession with fame has caused him to become twisted and led him to become the killer he was supposed to investigate: The Miami Mutilator.

10. #10

    Keys: San Francisco Bombing, San Fran

    Nuclear bombing of inexact geopolitical context that took place on April 3rd, 1986. It resulted in extreme Russo-phobic attitudes in Americans, forming many groups of patriots who riot against them. These patriots often use the phrase 'Never Again Another San Fran' in their protest signs.

11. #11

    Keys: Hawaiian Conflict

    A theater of the Soviet-American War, a conflict in the 1980's between USA and Soviet Union. Of unknown causes, beginning or accurate end.

12. #12

    Keys: Russo-American Coalition, Russian American Coalition, RAC

    An alliance by the Soviet Union and the United States formed some time after the 1986 San Francisco bombing, presumably to help prevent full scale nuclear war in the aftermath of the Hawaiian Conflict and likely other land war threats. Many patriots are against it due to the bombings.

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